“Anti-malarial drugs and effective in treating plasma” Chinese authorities New virus February 18 5:29
Chinese health officials at a press conference on treatment for patients with the new coronavirus at a press conference on Tuesday show that anti-malarial drugs will be used for the general public and plasma treatment for patients who have healed in severely ill patients. He pointed out that the effect was remarkable.
When one of these antimalarial drugs was used in more than 100 patients in clinical trials after the spread of the infection, improvement in symptoms was confirmed and there was no problem with safety.
Among them, a 54-year-old male patient reported that the virus had not been detected within a week since the administration of this drug.
For this reason, health authorities in China have indicated that the effect is clear and will use it at medical institutions nationwide in the future.
Although the risk assessment of side effects has not been determined for severely ill patients, it has been found that treatment with completely cured individuals using plasma is effective, and one of 11 severely ill patients had symptoms. The health authorities are calling on patients to be given blood plasma after the patient has recovered and has been discharged, with the other 10 patients improving their symptoms.
In addition, to reduce mortality, it is extremely important to provide early treatment before serious illness.In addition, there are cases in which even mildly ill people suddenly become severely ill. We caution you not to think that you do not need it.